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vug  (vg, vg)
n.
A small cavity in a rock or vein, often with a mineral lining of different composition from that of the surrounding rock.
[Cornish vooga.]
vuggy adj.
vug, vugg, vugh [vʌg]
n
(Mining & Quarrying) Mining a small cavity in a rock or vein, usually lined with crystals
[from Cornish vooga cave]
vuggy , vughy adj
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They contain vuggy pores, defined as pores that are connected only through interparticle porosity (Lucia, 1999).
Modeling of multiscale porous media by Biswal, Bibhu; Oren, Pal-Eric; Held, Rudolf J.; Bakke, Stig; Hilfer, Rudolf / Image Analysis and Stereology
In its lower 3 m, the Eel Bed contains 1-3 cm structureless and vuggy beds intercalated with thinly-laminated (1-5 mm) layers of algal mats, anhydrite and dolomite.
Mudcracks, bird's-eye, and anhydrite in intertidal/supratidal late ... by Kilibarda, Zoran; Doffin, Jason / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
8 m) the beds are characterized by weakly argillaceous, porous, microlaminated, massive (up to 1 m thick layers) dolostones, so-called dolostones of Kaarma type (see also Einasto 1990), which in the eastern sections alternate with kerogenous and vuggy dolostones (Vatta-817 core, depth 54.
Sedimentation of the Himmiste-Kuigu fish bed (Ludlow of Estonia) and ... by Marss, Tiiu; Perens, Helle; Klaos, Tiiu / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Geology
 
 
 
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